BILL NUMBER: AJR 59	CHAPTERED  07/06/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   88
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 6, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JUNE 29, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 18, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cox
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Pescetti, Steinberg, and Thomson)

                        APRIL 24, 2000

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 59--Relative to Sacramento airports.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 59, Cox.  Sacramento airports.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress to
take whatever measures are appropriate and necessary to facilitate
the designation of Sacramento County International Airport and Mather
Airport as a Port of Entry, and pursue the locating of customs,
immigration, and agricultural services at those airports.




   WHEREAS, Sacramento County International Airport is a major air
carrier facility that served over 7.3 million passengers in fiscal
year 1998; and
   WHEREAS, Sacramento County International Airport has over one
hundred thirty daily domestic flights, but no international fights;
and
   WHEREAS, Sacramento County is desirous of establishing air service
between Sacramento and its neighbors to the north and south, Canada
and Mexico; and
   WHEREAS, Mexicana Airlines has expressed a strong interest in
serving the Sacramento region with nonstop service to Mexico; and
   WHEREAS, Nonstop service between Sacramento and Mexico or Canada
will require customs, immigration, and agricultural facilities to be
located at Sacramento County International Airport; and
   WHEREAS, Neither Sacramento County International Airport nor
Mather Airport presently is designated as a Port of Entry for
purposes of the U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
neither airport houses the necessary customs, immigration, and
agricultural facilities necessary to accommodate nonstop
international flights; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the State of California strongly urges the President
and the Congress to take whatever measures are appropriate and
necessary to facilitate the designation of Sacramento County
International Airport and Mather Airport as a Port of Entry, and
pursue the locating of customs, immigration, and agricultural
services at those airports; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States.
